I find it interesting that the BBC reports this vote as a large margin. 2mil to 1.6 mil does not seem like a large margin. 200k votes out of 3.6mil is 5-6% margin. I don’t know what the turn out was like, but I’d not be surprised if over 200k had stayed home. I think the UK and the BBC would be better served by owning up to the numbers and acting in a way that would prevent another vote some day.

so, if voters in independence minded areas got an extra 135349 votes, the election would still have gone to “better together”.

Still, the better together folks did not secure a majority of the 4.28 million persons who were technically eligible to vote. However. if we assume an overall turnout of 91 percent, (3.89 million votes) and all of those extra people had voted “Yes”, the Nos would still have carried the day